Jul 15, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Thirty-eight years ago today, the White House asked the three networks to clear space in prime time for an important message from the President. The request appeared to come out of the blue, and there was widespread speculation regarding his intentions —would he...
Jul 14, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Herb Klein, one of RN’s oldest friends, supporters, and colleagues, died at home in La Jolla on 2 July. He was 91. He will be remembered this morning at a memorial service on the flight deck of the USS Midway in San Diego Harbor. Herb’s last years were marked by the...
Jul 12, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
In The New York Times, Adam Nagourney writes: Political comebacks tend to come in two forms. The first is when a party stumbles back into power because of the mistakes by the other side. A classic instance came in 1976, when Watergate enabled Jimmy Carter to win the...
Jul 10, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
On November 11, 1962, five days after Richard Nixon told an audience of reporters that “you won’t have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference,” ABC News aired a thirty-minute TV special titled The Political...
Jul 10, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
No, not those tapes. A little over two weeks ago I posted about one of the webpages of the groundbreaking and very informative nixontapes.org site run by Luke Nichter, an assistant professor of history at Tarleton State University in Texas. This page, at the time I...
Jul 9, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
38 years ago this week, President Nixon stunned the world when he announced that he would visit Communist China. Today, President Obama was supposed to meet President Hu Jintao in Italy, but that meeting was canceled at the last moment – but no one is worried about...
